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...Cats. The era Brooks finds confident did not begin very promisingly. In New York, Novelist Edgar Saltus and Playwright Clyde Fitch were turning out popular confections. Saltus believed that only three qualities mattered in fiction: "Style, style polished and style repolished." Fitch was a chameleon "who changed his color with the feminine tastes of the time." In Philadelphia, Agnes Repplier tatted spinsterish essays on tea and cats. Down South, Lafcadio Hearn haunted the French quarter of New Orleans, looking for the exotic...
Animal Trainer Clyde Beatty, already carrying a total of 24 scars on his back from brushes with wild beasts, picked up one on his right arm. While Beatty was rehearsing with a panther for some television adventure films, the big cat squirmed loose and clawed...
...clearest warning came from Indiana's Coach Clyde Smith, quitting under alumni pressure after a disappointing season (two wins, seven losses). Said he: "We, as coaches, and the universities, as educational institutions, have sold our athletic heritage for a mess of pottage . . . We must be willing to accept in part the blame for the inroads made by protected gambling into the field of university athletics .. . You can't buy a boy's body and expect him to play with his heart and soul...
...researchers, Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, and Evon Z. Vogt, assistant professor of Social Anthropology, reported their findings in "Navaho Means People," just published by the University Press...
...book, the significant part of the plot takes place in the form of a flashback, imaginatively set up by the use of sliding backdrop. The action moves from the present to the late 1920's without an obtrusive break, from Westchester to a Massachusetts town named Clyde (presumably fashioned afer Newburyport...